Isles of Scilly school term dates

Checked against the council's published documents · September 2026

The Isles of Scilly are the smallest education authority in England, with one school: Five Islands Academy, spread across four island bases. The council's most recent published term dates calendar is for 2017/18, and as an academy, Five Islands sets its own dates anyway. So for current term dates there's exactly one source that counts: the school itself.

Where to find the dates

Five Islands Academy publishes its term dates on its own website at fiveislands.scilly.sch.uk. The council's schools and colleges page points there too. Scilly dates tend to sit close to Cornwall's pattern, and Cornwall Council's calendar is on this site if you're coordinating travel with the mainland, but treat the academy's published dates as the only authority.

Why this page exists: we cover every UK council that publishes term dates. The Isles of Scilly council hasn't published a current calendar since 2017/18, and we don't republish a school's dates as if a council set them. If the council resumes publishing, this becomes a normal term dates page. Read how we compile term dates.